Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1904 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, V7EDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1904.

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If You Waste Your Nerve Energy, After Awhile You Will Suffer For It. Yoa can -waste nerve force by excess, ever-work, worry, anxiety, etc You can weaken yourself by not eating proper food or securing suScient rest to renew the nerve energy you us up. The proper treatment. In addition to rood phosphctic food, such as whole meal bread, prepared cereals, eta. Is Dr. ILles Restorative Nervine. This Is es truly a brain and nerv food as any food you could eat, and botides, furnishes strength and tone of Its own, which goes to the weakened nervo system, and sets it to rights. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine Is a refreshing, revitalizing: tonlo food-medicine for the brain and nerves. It reconstructs worn-out nerve tissue, and fills your languid brain with new lire and vigor. Dr. Miles'. Nervine nss made so many marvelous . cures, of people so sick the doctors thought they were Incurable that it is today the standard medicine In many thousands of American homes. The first bottle is guaranteed to help you, or druggist returns your money. "The extremo heat, cloe confinement and Intense mental strain Incident -to the banking business, has caused me to suffer with nervousness and insomnia. It gfves me pleasure to say that I have used Dr. Miles' . Nervine with, very satisfactory results In the treatment of these affections. I am now on my fifth bottle, and eat and sleep well, in fact have almost forgotten that I possess nerves." lt. I DALliY, Asst. Cashier, State Bank, Texarcana, Ark. "CT? TT1 Write- to us for Free Trial JC XUCjXj Package of Dr. Miles' Antl-, Pain Pills, the New Scientific Remedy v. for Pain. Also Symptom Blank. Our Specialist will diagnose your case, tell you what fs wrong, and bow to right It, Fre. DIL MILES MEDICAL CO., LABORATORIES. IILKIIART. IND. Her, anti-snloon ticket was elected. Carthage, entire Republican ticket elected by large majorities. Roonville. entire Republican ticket .elected. Springtield, entire Democratic ticket elected. REPUBLICANS .WON IN THE CITIES OF KANSAS KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 5.-The elections In cities In Kansas to-day were for minor officers. In Iiwrence and "Wichita all the Republican candidates were elected. In Leavenworth the Republicans elected Judge, clerk of city court, marshall and three councilmeu; the Democrats, city treasurer and three councilmeu. In Tope ka the Republicans elected all but one councilman arfd all the members of the school board. In Kansas City, Kas., the Republicans elected four aldermen, the Democrats two. ' Itcsnlts in .cw Mexico. DENVER. Col.. April 5. Elections were held in the cities and towns of New Mexico to-cay. The Republicans were successful at Las Vegas and Gallup and the Democrats at Santa Fe. SHOWERS TO-DAY; FAIR TO-MORROW WASHINGTON, April 5.-Forecast for "Wednesday and Thursday: Indiana Showers on Wednesday. Thursday fair, light to fresh variable winds becoming northwesterly. Ohio Showers Wednesday. Thursday fair; variable winds. Lower Michigan Showers on "Wednesday. Thursday fair; variable winds becoming northwesterly and fresh. Kentucky Showers and slightly cooler on "Wednesday. Thursday fair. Illinois Partly cloudy on "Wednesday; showers In east and south portions. Thursday fair; light to fresh southwest to northwest winds. Kansas Fair on "Wednesday; warmer in southeast portion. Thursday fair. - Colorado Fair on Wednesday and Thursday. Wyoming Partly cloudy on Wednesday; probably rain in the northwest portion. Thursday fair. North Dakota Fartly cloudy and warmer on Wednesday; showers at night or Thursday. South Dakota, and Nebraska Fair on Wednesday and Thursday. Local Observations on Tuesday. P.ar. Tem. R.H. Wind. Weather. Free. 7 a.m. .30.3 2-X M S'east. Clar. 0 00 T p.m.. 30.12 M 4 S'west. Cloudy. 0.00 Maximum temperature, 62; minimum temperat ture. 36. Comparative statement of the mean temperature and total precipitation on April 5: Teno. Free. Normal 51 0 12 Mean and total 43 0 00 Departure for day 2 0 12 Departure for month 23 2 25 Departure since Jan. 1 3SS Plus. W. T. I5LYTHE, Section Director! Yesterday's Temperatures. Stations. Abilene, Tet Amarillo, Tex Atlanta. Ga lUxmarck. N. D ... liufTalo. N. Y Cairo. Ill Caijcary. Alberta . Chattanooga. Tenn Cheyenne. Wyo ... Chicago. Ill Cincinnati. O 7a. m. Max. 75 7 p.m. 6S 5S

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AllO-FREW TREATY ABOUTJEAOY TO SIGH Main Points Involve Radical Changes in Colohial Interests of the Two Nations.

SETTLING MINOR ' POINTS PA RIC. April 5. Foreign Minister Dclcasse had a loner conference to-day with Paul Cam'oon. French ambassador at London, relative to the Anglo-French colonial treaty, settling several long-pending issues, principally In regard to Morocco Egypt and Newfoundland. M. Cambon will return to London to-morrow and it Is expected that the treaty will be signed toward the end of the present .week. The main points are settled but there are some detailscapable of causing delay. For instance, the Newfoundland government does not wish the French fishermen to retain the right of catching their own bait off shore. However, this la considered it minor detail and not likely to affect the general agreement. France surrenders her sovereignty over the. Newfoundland shore and receives an indemnity. The latter is two-fold, first for French individuals giving up property along the surrendered shore and second for the French government's relinquishment of its own sovereignty. The reports current setting forth the amount of the indemnity are inaccurate, as it Is the present intention to submit the amount of the Indemnity to The Hague tribunal. Morocco will figure In the treaty and according to the French view will be the most important subject. Spanish objections at first seemed to threaten this portion of the treaty, but it i now perceived that AngloFrench Interests In Morocco are entirely distant from Franco-Spanish interests. Spain's interests . are political. Those of Great Britain are commercial. "The Egyptian agreement does not affect Great Britain's, protectorate over Egypt, being confined to the administration of the Egyptian debt. Great Britain having a larger latitude in disposiag of the surplus without the concurrence of France. France Kets improved facilities In reaching Lake Tchad and other points In French Central Africa. This, concession Is a partial return for the surrender of her sovereignty over the Newfoundland shore. SUIT FILED AGAINST MILLIONAIRE'S WILL Charles G. Pepper, of St. Louis, Seeks -to Have a Bequest of About $700,000 Set Aside. ST. LOUIS, April 5. Charles G. Pepper, son of the late Christian Popper, a millionaire tobacco manufacturer of St. Louis, has filed suit In the Circuit Court to set aside the will left by his father. He alleges that his father was of unsound mind" and was unduly influenced when the iustrument was executed. By the terms of the will Christian Cornelius (also known as Pepper) will receive about $700, Charles Pepper tlcclares that Cornelius has no legal claim -to any part of the property. The will of Christian Pil per eiisposed of property worth moro than $4,000,000. PLIGHTED TROTH BESIDE DEATHBED Wedding of Sweethearts Who Carried Out Woman's Last Request. NEW CASTLE, Pa,. April 5. News of a romantalc marriage following the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Hardaker Bolton,- a wealthy resident of this city, has been received. The principals were Dr. Scott Storey, of Cleveland, a nephew of Mrs. Bolton, and Miss Hunt, of Knox, Ia., who were married In Cleveland. Ir. Storey and his bride met at the bedfide of Mrs. Bolton. Miss Hunt was Mrs. Bolton's nurse and Mrs. Bolton told Dr. Storey that it was hcr wish that they should marry. Dr. Storey received a legacy of $10,0uo under Mrs. Bolton's will. JEWS OF BULGARIAN TOWN FEAR A RIOT VIENNA, April 5. Considerable uneasiness baa existed among the Jewish element of Lom-Palanka, Bulgaria, since April 2, owing to the murder of a young Macedonian, although a medical commission has certified that It was not a ritual murder. No reports have been received of rioting at Lom-ralanka. although local agitators have been endeavoring to incite the population of the town against the Jews. Xicarajtnn Sei"e Turtle FI her. KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 5. According to official news received here, six Cayman turtle schooners were seized by the Nicaraguan government last week and their crews arrested and conveyed to Gracias a Diös. - Immediately 011 receipt of the news the Cayman commissioner forwarded a dispatch to the government here and the latter is now communicating with the British Foreign Office on the subject. Hrothers Assign. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 5. Hosmer J. Barrett and T. Frost Barrett, sons of the late Thomas Barrett, a widely known financier and former business man of this city, to-day filed individual petitions in bankruptcy iu the United States District Court of this city. The combined liabilities of the Barrett brothers aggregate 5325.0UO and combiDfd assets of $57,yu0 are shown. No cause is assigned. Accused Clerk Attempted Suicide. SALAMANCA. N. Y., April 5. W. D. DImm, of Dayton, O., an Erie Railroad mail clerk, stabbed himself in the left breast at the lockup to-day and Is at the hospital in a dangerous condition. Dimm was placed under arrest last night charged with robbing the malls. It is alleged that marked money was found on his person. Horseman Killed Two Arrests. DE SOTO. Mo., April 5. J. S. Hector, in charge of a carload of race horses bound for St. Louis from Hot. Springs. Ark., was shot a.id killed to-day near Mill Springs. Two men named Lanttlle and McMillan were taken from the train and placed under arrest here on suspicion. They declare Hector killed himself by accident. In Smnll Colorado Cities. DENVER. Col.. April 5. Municipal elections wore held in several of the towns of Colorado to-day. No elections were held in any of the larger cities. At Rockvale, Coal Creek and Williamsburg, coal mining camps, labor union tickets were successful. - At Montrose, a taxpayers ticket was elected, high license being the issue. Tarty Linea Xot Drawn. LINCOLN. Neb.. April ' 5. Republicans elected their entire city ticket to-day by majorities ranging from 6tt) to 1,100. Party lines were not closely drawn, the principal Issue being lower rates for gas. The proposition to vote lnnds for a municipal lighting plant carried. Oklahoma Towns Itcpahlicnn. GUTHRIE, O. T.. April 5.-The Republicans to-day elected the city assessor and live out of seven councilmen and four of five members of tho school board. In Perry all Republican candidates, except one member of the school board, were elected. At Oyster Hay. In the expectation that it will become the summer capital of the Nation, Oy?ter Bay is "sprucing up" by making a number of permanent improvements, and every effort will bo put forth to make the village attractive to the thousands cf strangers who are expected to viit it. It is given out that Iresident Roosevelt will arrive at Oyster Bay earlier this year than last and will probably leave somewhat earlier than lieietofore. New York Letter.

JAPAN IS PREPARED FOR A LONG WAR

By FREDERICK PALMER. Collier's Special War Correspondent Attached to the Japanese General Staff. Published by the Journal by Special Arrangement with Collier's Weekly.

TOKIO, March 4. One conviction here is universal: Unless Russia wishes to give up in the midst of humiliation, the war will be long. To the general staff, planning campaigns to extend over years, the impatience of the correspondents to be at the front comes as the patter of rain on the window pane. These master tacticians and strategists are like s-o many machinists directing a plant under cover. Now and then one comes out and chats politely with the inquirer, and slips back to the inner mysteries. Once the' whole powerful machine Is in action, the engineers, with a Japanese smile, will pull ,-iside the curtam. The first tableau was the diplomatic coup that caught Russia unawares. The second was the occupation of Seoul and the victory; of Port Arthur. The third will be the appearance of a big army at some strategic point. Even in peace ' times the Japanese never say what they are doing; they announce in due time what they havc done. Five men In the whole country, not more, know the plan of campaign, even in its general policy. A Cabinet officer put a question to one of the five, whose answer was: "It is better that you should not know. It will help us none if you do know, and you might, in an unguarded moment, let a hint pass your lips." The correspondent who complains must recall that Stonewall Jackson never took his own staff into his confidence. In this land, where authority comes directly from the EmperoY, one man, or a set of men, bears all the responsibility. Tho business of the rest Is to obey. The major general himself may not know what Is the objective of his division. Ho is as essentially one of the chessmen as his own privates, moved by the great players in Tokio. When a local paper says thirt an officer of the Imperial Guard has departed, "destination unknown." It is telling as much as the officer himself knows.. Ten days ago Tokio was full of soldiers; to-day it is again a town of peace. At the office of the general staff, where Lieutenant General Baron Kodama, the master of tho army's work, its plans, and its ambitions, still remains, the mill grinds with the same regularity and fineness as in time of peace. The Imperial Guard has gone, "destination unknown."" The next tableau will show them in action. The system that carries them from Tokio to Korea or Manchuria seems almost as obscure to a. foreigner as that of Caesar'3 transports. Ten days ago trooper-packed trains were running out of Tokio; the nearby villages were alive with flags. By way of welcome the artistic ingenuity Inborn in every Japanese gave the inspiration of its patriotism full play in decorations. Little crowds gathered to cheer the glimpse of a uniform. Now the regular train schedule is being reestablished and a newcomer, who looks out of the Window at the figures, turning the ground for the sowing, might well ask if the country was really at war. This total absence of confusion, heretofore considered Inevitable to preparation, i3 the marvel that continues to impress one who waits upon the word of tho general staff to go to the front. It Is this state of peace which partly answers the question whether or not Japan can afford a long war. It is now clear that the funds will be forthcoming to keep a great army in the field for two or three years, if necessary. With the Russian navy off the seas, Japan can put back into commission all her merchant ships not actually needed as regular transports. She is conducting operations away from home. No subject of the Emperor not actually in the army need ever hear a shot fired. This people is as widely separated from the devastation of war as our own was from that in the Philippines. Three or four or five hundred thousand of her producers are absent. Of these, 150,000 are regularly in the army. To take the places of the others is an increasing population of 600,000 a year. The loss from interrupted human industry, then, is inconsiderable. As much land w;ill be tilled this year as last. Japan can go on raising her silk, rice and tea, and buying and selling in the summer of 1901 as she did in the summer of 1903. The excess of consumption due to the army will give an impetus to production. Most of what the army uses, outside of flour, meats, and some ammunition, will bo produced entirely at home. The old saying that no nation that ever wanted to make war was kept from it by lack of funds has a sound, economic basis. This nation wants to make war. Every man, woman and child is for bloodshed without end till victory comes. In national finance at such a time, belief is the most valuable asset next to productiveness. If the people distrusted the government; if they hoarded their gold and refused to subscribe to the war bonds, then we should already be in the midst of a crisis. The contrary is magnificently true. To a war over-seas are brought the sacrifices which are supposed to go with a war against the Invader; such sacrifices not in the last ditches, but at the outset, when victory is In the air, as the South made in the civil war, and Frenchmen made in 1S70. Joined with this is peace-time production. When a people stand ready to give to the government their daily earnings and the sale of their products, the nation need borrow only of itself. In vain you may look for some class which does not regard this entry of Japanese troops into a foreign land as a matter of life and death to the home land. There are literally no "antis" in Japan. The 100,000,000 yen loan is subscribed again and again. The swelling provincial war funds are fed by the money of all classes. The coolie stakes his wages on the courage of Japanese troops; his employer stakes his business. Patriotism gives the whole land the community of interest of a club The nobles send in their gold cups (perhaps given by the Emperor); their wives send in their jewelry to be melted down. A certain marquis gave all his horses to the government. When it came to the carriage pair, madam protested a little. "My husband was never so angry with me in all rny life as with that piece of selfishness," she said afterward. If you at home would understand how the individual rgards national affairs as his personal af fairs, consider mat a forign force had taken New York, Philadelphia and Washington and was marching inland. Then the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Vanderbilts, and the Goulds would contribute their millions to defend their property. The Japanese millionaire has no selfish interest beyond the expansion of Japanese trade, which will follow Japanese successes. But he is a Japanese before he is a millionaire. Just as tho coolie is a. Japanese before he is a coolie. - Even as for nine years this people have looked forward to war with Russia as a set eventuality of the same kind as final examinations to the student, they now look forward to n long campaign which will test their resources and patience. So they settle down to their sinister programme. In a month the news of contlict has become a get part of national life. The treasury plans for a two of three years' campaign with the same inciusiveness of all possibilities' as the general staff. Heavy shipments of gold may affect the confidence of foreigners, of course; it was foreign exchange that sent the gold abroad. SquareJawed Japanese composure in this, as in its naval strategy, knows its work and the wherewithal for doing It. The proposition to raise the taxes brings no more sign of opposition than the emercencv exnens-cs of sickness to a familv: I lor everybody knew years aso that with

the certain war increased revenue would be necessary. Heavy taxation was a thing to be expected as much as heat in the summer and cold in winter. The secret of the universal sacrifice is the Emperor himself. In America, where the abundant resources have yielded vast fortunes for some and great prosperity for all who are energetic, few ever think of how much the Nation has done for us. The Japanese go further than this. In a land where every mouthful of food comes grudgingly from the earth, there is a sweet temper grateful for small favors. Scratch your man of position deep, and you find that with the humbler classes he feels the paternity of the empire as the subject of no other nation can and does. Instead of thanking fortune lor luck or prosperity, or for the daily bread you earn by the sweat of your brow, this people thanks the Emperor. When Admiral To;;o, in response to an Imperial message, says, "We are grateful that almost all the officers and men who undertook the task returned safely by the unseen power of protection of your illustrious Majesty," the phrasing means the same as our thanks to God for success. The Emperor gave them the land and national life, so that all heroism is merely paying a debt of love and gratitude. The Japanese idea of the joys of eternal life Is limited to the joy of dying for his land. Ueyond the grave he expects none of the rewards which excite ths courage of the Turks. In one respect, this war is carrying us back to the days when unconquered new worlds were plentiful, and England, France, Spain and Holland fought battles over distant provinces, which were no sooner occupied than they changed owners. The taking of either enemy's capital is as much out of the question as in the war of the English and the French for supremacy, in North America. Russia throughout her great domain may go on with her home affairs without feeling that any possible defeat will bring the war to her doors. From her own resources she, too. can feed and clothe her army in the field, and she. too, can borrow of herself. But to her Manchuria is distant in the material self-interests which make Korea very near to Japan. These considerations, which are borne in upon us with renewed force a month after the war has begun, when not even a skirmish on land has occurred, may make the weeks that we have waited here in Tokio for passes to join the advancing columns only the two-line prologue of a great drama. In Tokio we get less news, wo know iar less of the war than you at home. Our sources are crops of rumors and the

official accounts published in the daily pcrs. Ever since the 15th of Februa y hope that we may go soon, very soon, been held out to us by report or by pathe has the wish that was father of the report. As we do not know where the armies are coin to land (or have landed) we can not precede them, if we would. You mav hear one day that 100,000 men have already left the islands; the next day the number has gone down to 50,000 or up to 150,000. There is to be one great force moving north from Korea, according to one rumor; there are to be armies advancing on Vladivostok and Port Arthur, and from the Yalu at the same time, according to another. The whole truth is known to smiling Baron Kodama. who has at his fingers ends all details and the buttons that he may press to have his orders executed.. But the situation Is not unusual. Our public was in the dark six years ago when transports were waiting at Tampa and the army of correspondents was consumed in the fire of Its own curiosity. This is the period of plans for the army and of impotence for the correspondents; the period of action for both is coming The man who stnrts from New York a month hence may be in time for the first great battle. . The correspondents at Tampa had tho privilege of receiving the rumors in their own language, not in one which is so difficult in its reading, if comparatively easy in speaking, that not more than twenty men in Japan can get sense out of a newspaper report. You get nothing direct. You are as dependent upon an interpreter for your knowledge as you are upon a cook for your food. In the government offices are a few who speak a foreign language. At the geneial staff is Captain Tanaka. who should be famous the .world over, if he is not already. He surprises linguists by his command of languages, attaches by his military knowledge, diplomats by his diplomacy, and correspondents by his mastery of human nature. In height, Tanaka is five feet two or three inches, and he is as erect as a German drill sergeant. He i3 never absent from the staff office, and the . instant you send in your card he appears, coming smartly along the hall, smiling as If it was the greatest pleasure in the world to meet mtn who are after favors. He can understand any kind of English, from Shoreditch to Glasgow, frorh Mississippi to Maine. He remembers the correspondent's name the first time he hears it, and all who are employed on the same paper. Americans say he is a good American; Englishmen that he is a good Englishman. He laughs with his alert, snapping eyes, which find something of interest in the most trivial things. Some acute men think that they have quizzed Tanaka to a purpose. My opinion is that Tanaka was only having a lark with them. He knows a joke even when It Is subtle as readily as he knows whether or not you have read military history. We even "jolly" him a little, and he takes it in good part. He may get tired, like common mortals; but I have never seen him when he would not throw back his head and appear as interested as if he had just awakened on the first sunny morning for weeks. He is the alertest, quickest, most energetic little man in Japan, outside of Baron Kodama, and that is why he was made aid to Kodama. The two together weigh about as much as the average Occidental, and they have the vitality of about fifty average men. If Napoleon had seen Tanaka walk across a room, I am sure that he would have put him on his staff at once. In selecting him as the go-between of publicity and military secrecy, the Japanese have shown their usual judgment of a man to fit a place. He cushions tho stone wall of diplomacy with his affability. He can say "I don't know," and make you feel as if he had given you a cyclopedia of information. Officially, the correspondents are now in the general staff's hands. You first made your application to the Foreign Office through the legation. Three weeks ago the word came to send in the names of your interpreter and servant at once an official "at once." This looked businesslike. It kept up the spirits of the hotel lobbies for ten days.. Then we learned that our applications were passed on and duly turned over to the War Department. A week ago, the Foreign Office informed us that passes would be issued soon, and the lobbies were as cheerful as a garden party. When the passes came they were entitled "Certificate of Permission to Accompany the Army," and they said that the named person was permitted to follow the division. An attached slip of rice paper read: "The bearer is requested to inquire of the military staff headquarters as to the name of the division to which he is to be attached and the date of departure, and to request the name of the division to be entered upon this certificate." Immediately, everybody went to the general staff. Tanaka was a little surprised. "We will let you know as soon as you may go," he said, as if he regretted the Inconvenience of the coming to men who wait and pray for departure. His manner I cannot describe; it was the height of art in easing a fall and, making you think that you had struck on your feet. "Will it be two or three weeks before we go?" I asked. "If so, I think that I will run up to Nikko and look at the temples." Tanaka- laughed. "Two or three weeks! That Is a long time," ho said. "Two or three davs. then." "Perhaps!" Tanaka laughed again, and I thought almost mischievously, if politely. "You must be patient," he added, j Occasional plays with words with Tanaka form the oasis in this desert of waiting. If I could speak Japanese as well as he speaks English, I might satisfy my ambition to pet nearer the heart of this subdued people who take a. war of life and death with stoical calm. A hardware dealer, when he told me of his thriving business in the native short knives, struck no Gallic attitude. The knife is not in the regulations. Its ready sale speaks of the aggressive individuality of the Roman legionary reincarnated in a bronze skin. and plant eves, who, if he is surrounded, counts upon taking heavy toll with quick thrusts before he is killed, thus adapting to modern conditions the resoluteness of th3 harakiri. The mind of the masses finds thso little knives more to its fancy than the strange rifles which carry bullets over great distance. In reading the bulletins of naval action, it is the doings of the torpedo boats that are followed most closely. Tho "water thunderbolts," as they call them, appeal to the imagination of a people small in stature, living in small houses, more than battleships. Their admiration always would be with the slWg-throwr. stone or the deft sword-thrust, rather than with the smashing hhws of the battle-axe that brought down the giant. LCopyrisht. 1Ö0L by Collier's Weekly.!

V,'A Fi COKPOKIITS HELD UP BY RUSSIANS R. H. Little's Account of Alleged Outrage and Arbitrary Action at Xieu-Chwansr.

SAVED BY CONSUL MILLER CHICAGO, April 3. A special cable dispatch, dated Tien-Tsin. received to-day by the Daily News from Richard H. Little, staff correspondent- of the News, says: "While the Daily News's dispatch boat Fa wan-has been permitted by the Russians to depart form the harbor of Nieu-Chwang, the Muscovites thus far have failed to release from prison our Japanese servants. The lives of these inoffensive perrons may even be in danger. The Fawan left CheFoo last week, and at that time it was not known there that the Russians had proclaimed martial law at Nieu-Chwang, which was supposed to be a neutral port that was free to all comers. Mr. Washburn and myself were greatly astonished, therefore, when on arriving at the bar of NieuChwang harbor the Fawan was seized by Russian oiiicials, who came out to us in a steam launch. The muster of our crew revealed the presence of two Japanese, which caused great excitement among our captors. Our offer to retire immediately was declined, and soldiers with rixed bayonets soon boaided the vessel, seized the servants and dragged them from the ship, defying the protection of the Uritish flag under which it sailed, being of Uritish ownership. The qrrest was made at the mouth of the harbor, which is not recognized by Great Britain and the United States as belonging to Russia. "On the Fawan s arrival at anchorage marines were placed on board, and the captain was informed that the forts would fire on the vessel and destroy it if any attempt should be made to leave the harbor. During the examination of the Japanese servants the British consul remained apathetic, though he said the servants probably would be' executed. On being pressed to render assistance he delined to do anything, even when put in possession of all the facts. "The excitement among the Russians continued, as they insisted that we were in sympathy with Japan, and had brought to the harbor Japanese officers disguised as servants previous to an attack by Admiral Togo's lleet. "Mr. Washburn and myself were placed under arrest, and only the vigorous protests of United States Consul Miller, who was very active in our behalf and very kind, prevented us from being sent to some prison in the inttrior. When Consul Miller secured our release on Sunday we expected that our servants would be released also, but the Russians have not yet yielded to the protests being made against the imprisonment of the two harmless Japanese." AMERICAN OFFICER TO INSTRUCT CHINESE Lieutenant Mclsaac Will Soon Take His Commission in the Orient. GLOUCESTER, Moss., April 5.Iieut. Charles M. Mclsaac, adjutant of the first battalion of the Eighth Regiment, M. V. M., has received an appointment as Instructor In the new Chinese imperial forces, with a captain's commissioa. Lieutenant Mclsaac will leave for China in three or four weeks. Ills engagement is for five years, with the provision that, if this country should be engaged iu war, Captain Mclsaac will be allowed a furlough by the Chinese government. Captain Mclsaac was born in this city Dec. in, 1SG0. He entered the employ of John Pew & Son. In 1891 he joined company G, Eighth Regiment, M. V. M., as private, and was rapidly promoted from the ranks to corporal and sergeant, and was elected second lieutenant in 1SD5. A short time afterwards he was promoted to first lieutenant. He served through the Spanish war. going with the regiment South and to Cuba. Colonel Pew appointed him adjutant of the first battalion. He is considered one of the best officers in the regiment. Is a fine marksman, a good disciplinarian and is liked by the men. Captain Mclsaac was a member of the regimental rille team which won the State and regimental trophies in 1S97. When the Chinese government made application to this country for officers to instruct and drill the imperial army, Col. Pew was among the commanders asked by the United States 1 authorities to suggest the "most cligibls of his officers. Captain Mclsaac's name was first on the list which Colonel Pew submitted to the government. Captain Mclsaac has already received his commission from the Chinese government. RUSSIANS MAY DROP CHEMULPO INCIDENT ST. PETERSBURG, April 5. The statement by Commander Stepanoff, of the Variag, at St. Petersburg April 2, regarding the action of the commander of the United States gunboat Vicksburg at Chemulpo, was reprinted here to-day. It is believed the statement will put an end to the discussion of the incident, which has been the cause of so much irritation in Russia. Tho Zeitung says: "Captain Stepanoff has done well to explain the trouble. It has never been to Russia's interest to make enemies, although foolish chauvinism has done so. Russia has every reason to express her sincere thanks and recogniatlon for the humane and noble bearing of every power represented at Chemulpo." Great preparations are being made at St. Petersburg for the reception of the 'crews of the Variag and Korietz. The Council has voted $7.500 for their entertainment. Scholarships will be founded for the children of the. officers. Captain Stepanoff, in the statement referred to in the foregoing dispatch, said: "At the time the Vicksburg was stationed at Chemulpo her captain held aloof. He took no part in the conference ' of protest preceding the fight, for the simple reason that he was not invited to do .so. After the fight, like the others, he sent !b, surgeon with a boat to the rescue. As regards his not taking Russian seamen aboard the Vicksburg, this was unnecessary and it Is more than probable that Captain Rudineff, commanding the Variag, did not ask it." RAPID TRANSIT MEN VOTING ON STRIKE NEW YORK, April 5. The Times tomorrow will say that a vote is being taken by Brooklyn Rapid Transit employes on a proposition to go on strike. The movement is said to have practically the unanimous support of both surface and elevated railroad operatives, and the statement is made that the strike, if inaugurated, probably will extend to the Interbomugh Company, which operates the surface and elevated street railroads in Manhattan and The Bronx, ine wtge question is tne issue involved. Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company say that they have no knowledge of grievances on the part of the employes or a strike movement. JAPANESE SAID TO BE KILLING TONGHAKS SEOUL, Korea, April 5. It is reported that Japanese have killed two Tonghaks (bandits) near Gensan. The province of Chulla, In southern Korea, whore the Tonghaks precipitated the Chino-Japanese war, is being overrun by armed bands, and an official request has been made for troops to subdue them. A returning missionary reports that forty-rive Tonghaks have hecn hanged at Kongju, capital of the province of Chung-Chung. The British military attache has returned here from Ping-Vang. Iluinu Ilriy a German Ship. HAMBURG, April 5. The Boersenhalle confirms the sale of the Hamburg-American steamer Fuerst Bismarck to a Russian firm at Libau, Courland Russia. It was reported from Hamburg March 4 that the Fuerst Bismarck, a twiu-screw steamr of 3,t tons register, had been sold to Russia. The Boersenhalle at the time denied the report.

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FOLK WOULD HOT TAKE TIE m PHES1DEHCY Says the Work to Be Done as Governor of Missouri Is More Important than Any Other. KANSAS CITY, Io., April 5. Joseph W. Folk, circuit attorney of St. Louis and candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Missouri, when shown a dispatch suggesting him for the Democratic nomination for Vice President tonight, said: "While I appreciate the compliment some of the national committeemen confer upon me in suggesting my name for the Democratic vice presidential nomination, I would not entertain the idea for one moment. Missouri has a candidate for the presidency In Francis M. . Cockrell. the grand old man of the Missouri Democracy, and I would not permit my name to be used in any way to embarrass his chances. This would be sufficient reason for me to decline absolutely to be considered in this connection. "Furthermore, I consider the work to be done as Governor of Missouri as of more importance than anything I could accomplish In anj other position. I had rather be Governor of Missouri Just now than Vice President. Under no circumstances w'ould I accept any other nomination than the governorship of Missouri."

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(CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) ness, was himself wounded and his chief engineer and six men were killed. "With his machinery disabled and the helm of the Silnl damaged, Lieutenant Krlnitzky decided to cease firing, but fearing: to leave the open entrance to the harbor he approached the shallows near Golden hill and got off In a boat with another officer to extinguish the fire on the nearest steamer and to render aid to twelve Japanese who had been wounded. The Otvajny sent surgeons to care for the wounded and boats were sent to the other steamers at a terrible risk to cut the wires connecting the torpedoes with which the Japanese had arranged to destroy the steamers. The fires on the ships were extinguished." JAPAN'S FIRST ARMY IS MOVING ON WIJU SEOUL Korea, April 1, via Shanghai, April 5. The Japanese first army, consisting of 45,000 men. including the imperial guard, and the second and twelfth divisions, which has been concentrated at Anju. Is moving oa Wiju by three routes. It was the advance guard, composed of 450 Infantry and cavalry, which repulsed 600 Russians and occupied Ping-Ju (Chong-Ju), sixty-five miles southeast of Wiju, March 28. Lieut Kato and four Japanese were killed on that occasion and Capt. Kurowaka and eleven men were wounded. The Russians had ten men killed. Small infantry garrisons, with hospitals, etc., make Ping-Yang the tertiary, and Chinampo the secondary bases. Supplies are being landed at Hai-Ju and Chinampo, and are also beiug taken by junks up the Chlng-Chlen river to Anju. The horses, 5,200 to a division, were landed in bad condition. The necessity lor leading each horse reduces the strength of the fighting force. Many of the soldiers are suffering from the effects of frozen feet. The Japanese are fortifying Fusan, Southern Korea, and Konje island, off the southern coast, to defend Masampho. The Russians overestimated the strength of the Japanese force at Anju, and consequently retreated without making use of the natural advantages of the country to oppose the Japanese advance. There are persistent rumors here of the landing of Japanese troops on the LiaoTung peninsula and in the vicinity of NieuChwang. SCENES AT GENERAL KUROPATKIN'S QUARTERS ST. PETEiÖbURG. April 5. The army organ's correspondent at Liao-Yang forwards a description of General Kuropatkin's headquarters as follows: 'There Is none of the pomp and circumstance in life here, nothing but a round of hard work. The stone cottages built for the staff are cold and cheerless. Inside the officers have to sit In furs despite the roaring fires, but they are too busy to notice the discomfort. Every cottage resounds with the click of the typewriter drawing up details of the disposition of the troops. We have eclipsed the Germans In precision and promptitude. There is no confusion or bustle. As soon as a regiment arrives it is comfortably quartered in warm, roomy barracks, the men are well fed and rested and are then seilt off to their allotted stations. There is no serious illness among the arrivals, and no epidemics." , The German wireless telegraph system has been adopted at the Baikal ferries because the Cronstadt works are too busy supplying the warships with the Popoff system to furnish apparatus for Baikal. Major General Pflug telegraphs from Mukden under yesterday's date denying the reports of Japanese operations in Manchuria and stating that there are no Japanese troops in Manchuria. Lieutenant General Froloff, who has been acting", chief of the general staff since General Sakharoff's appointment as war minister, has been granted the rights and privileges of an assistant secretary of state by the Emperor. This may foreshadow his permanent appointment as chief of the general staff. General Sakharoff announces that th Orenburg Cossacks will be allowed 125 each for the purchase of horses. This measure Indicates the mobilization of the Cossacks in the Orenburg province in case of necessity. Russia has completed arrangements through the French minister at Tokio to appeal the cases of the Kusslan merchantmen now before the Japanese prize courts. Three Japanese lawyers have been engaged to present the cases. Appeals will be made on various grounds. Most of the ships were taken before the actual declaration of war, several of them captured on the high sons, having left port betöre the outbreak of hostilities, and others were detained in Japanese ports, notwithstanding Japan's declaration allowing Russinn ships in port a certain period of exemption. There were experiments- at the St. Nicholas and Warsaw depots to-day in embarking troops on and landing them from trains to determine the rapidity with which mobilization can be carried out. Two battalions of Infantry, two horse-guard batteries of artillery and a squadron of cavalry were allowed twenty-two minutes to board a train of forty-eight cars and seventeen minutes to leave It. The tasks were accomplished iivlhe specified times. The Landsrdrxn. or second-class reserves

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MRS. DANIEL J. SULLY iSSIB HEB CLAIM Hopes to Escape the Notoriety of Being a Witness in Bank- , mptcy Court. NEW YORK. April 5.-Believlng her appearance on the witness stand In the bankruptcy examination before a court commissioner would subject her to unpleasant notoriety, Mrs. Daniel J. Sully decided today to assign to the receiver her claim to the $151.000 of surplus money accruing to the F. W. Reynolds Company from the sal of Sully's hypothecated cotton. Richard IJ. Comstock. the attorney for the Reynolds Company in which Mrs. Sully is the largest shareholder, agreed to this disposition of the surplus. andsE. R. Rowers, counsel to the Corn Exchange Bank, which sold th e.OOO bales upon which it advanced K7,nn0 to Sully, promised not to call Mrs. Sully as a witness in the hearing to be held to-morrow unless it Is absolutely necessary. Rumori of Antl-JeirlsU Illot. ST. PETERSBURG. April 5.-Rumor 4 have reached here, which, however, are unconfirmed, to the effect that a small anti-Jewish disturbance has taken place at Gomel, in which about 100 Jews wero attacked. A free fight resulted and, according to the reports, some Jewish butchers drew their knives and wounded four rioters. Several Jewish stores were destroyed. of this province will be given six week training at the Kraenoys selo camp, beginning April 20. The Emperor has ordered the payment of a gratuity amounting to eighteen months' pay to the officers and men of the Variag; and Korietz. RUSSIA DECLINES TO ACCEPT SERVIAN FORCE BELGRADE. April 6. The committee which has been enrolling volunteers in Servia for service with the Russian army In the war in the far East has been dismayed by the receipt of a telegram from the Emperor of Russia thanking the members of the committee and the volunteers for their Russian sympathies, but declaring, however, that the services of the Servians would not be required. One thousand applications from volunteers already had been received. The news created something of a sensation at the festival for the benefit of the Russian Red Cross Society, at which King Peter and many persons distinguished in social life were present, but It did not interfere with the financial result of the festival, to which the King contributed I1.OU0. BURT TELLS OF SEIZURE OF STEAMER KOREA OMAHA, Neb., April 5. Horace G. Rurt, former president of the Union raciiic Railrad, has written Omaha friends of his experience In Japan, where the steamer Korea, t on which he was a passenger, was seized by the Japanese navy and her cargo, which he says was contraband of war, consigned to the Russians, was unloaded and placed In storehouses, where It will be held by the Japanese. The Korea was taken In by a gunboat, piloted through the mines which were laid in the harbor and tied up at a dock. After a thorough Investigation the passengers were permitted to proceed to their destinations. Mr. and Mrs. Hurt will remain in Korea and Japan until June, after which they will visit the Philippines, India and China, RUSSIANS MAY IV AIT " AT THE YALU RIVER PARIS, April 6.-The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris says that the Russian general staff is convinced that the Russians will await a Japanese attack on the right bank of the Yalu. They ar now busily engaged fortifying the mouth of the river. A remarkable bridge has been constructed' on the prolongation of the Wiju line, connecting It with Tin-IIu-Jan. The correspondent says the Russians are seeking to draw the Japanese on by sending small troops across the river. The correspondent of tho Matin at Harbin, telegraphing yesterday, says: "A hospital train arrived here to-day from Port Arthur with thirteen wounded and five sick. They were In the care of four sisters." Food and OH Dear at Vladivostok. VLADIVOSTOK. April 5. The military situation is quiet. There is no evidence of the presence of the enemy In this region. The prices of the necessities of life ar very high on account of the lack of provisions. Kerosene is selling at $2 for a tin of twenty pounds. Many of the inhabitants who left Vladivostok at the outbreak of the war are returning. The Usuri railway has resumed forwarding freight to private consignees. o Slen or Warships. LONDON. April 6. A correspondent of the Times, cabling yesterday afternoon, SiO-s that he has been cruising for fifty hours in the vicinity of Port Arthur and that he has seen no sign of the navy of either belligerent, nor even scout boats, but that he has seen large flotillas of junks steering northward, presumably going to Liao Lyshin to land provisions for Port Arthur. 91,300 for Russian ned Cross. CHICAGO, April 5. A musical recital for the benefit of the Russian Red Cross Societv, Riven at the residence of Mth. Potter Palmer, on the Lake Hhore drive, has netted f 1.5(0 for the relief of the soldiers of the Czar in the war in the far East. General Krcd I Cirant. of the United States Army, and Mrs. Grant, who is a tister of Mrs. Palmer, were not present. AVIJu Deserted tr Russians. TOKIO. April 5. Reports have been received here from Pinip Yang to tho effect that whon the Japanese scouts entered Wiju on Sunday last they found the town deserted by the Russians. The Korean residents of the town informed the pcoutJ that the Russian forces on the upper reaches of the Yalu river consist of small detached parties. All Quiet at lort Arthur. TORT ARTHUR. April 5.-There are no signs of the Japanese and there Is no notable change in the situation. , Grand Duke Roris has left Port Arthur Join tue nciu lurcc.

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